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Recent Examples of cadaver
Their test subject was reportedly a moose cadaver.
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Mack Degeurin,
Popular Science,
18 June 2026
The woodcut birth figures contained in these books were not images drawn from observation—pregnant cadavers for anatomical drawing were hard to come by—but were instead abstracted diagrams of the chaotic diversity of laboring bodies.
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Literary Hub,
16 June 2026
Lamb Avgerinos, a 33-year-old dog handler, drove 18 hours from Georgia with four of his cadaver dogs piled into his truck.
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Karen Valby,
Vanity Fair,
16 June 2026
Scientists identified one of the modern cadavers as a minke whale, or Balaenoptera acutorostrata, that measured about 10 feet (3 meters) long.
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Mindy Weisberger,
CNN Money,
12 June 2026
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Mack Degeurin,
Popular Science,
18 June 2026
The woodcut birth figures contained in these books were not images drawn from observation—pregnant cadavers for anatomical drawing were hard to come by—but were instead abstracted diagrams of the chaotic diversity of laboring bodies.
—
Literary Hub,
16 June 2026
Lamb Avgerinos, a 33-year-old dog handler, drove 18 hours from Georgia with four of his cadaver dogs piled into his truck.
—
Karen Valby,
Vanity Fair,
16 June 2026
Scientists identified one of the modern cadavers as a minke whale, or Balaenoptera acutorostrata, that measured about 10 feet (3 meters) long.
—
Mindy Weisberger,
CNN Money,
12 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for cadaver
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cadaver
corpse
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Watkins has been charged with a felony count of delivery of narcotics and a misdemeanor count of abuse of a corpse.
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The viruses trigger the same type of disease and are spread via the same methods — contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person, or the preparation of an infected corpse for traditional burials.
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“Cadaver.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cadaver. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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